District Courts (Limitation Act 2010) Amendment Rules 2010

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 1st day of November 2010

Present:His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Pursuant to section 122 of the District Courts Act 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, and with the concurrence of the Chief District Court Judge and at least 2 members of the Rules Committee established under section 51B of the Judicature Act 1908 (of whom at least 1 was a District Court Judge), makes the following rules.

5Form 9 amended

(a)by inserting “relief in respect of” before “the plaintiff’s claim is statute-barred”; and

(b)by inserting “relief in respect of” before “the plaintiff’s claim is not statute-barred”.

Rebecca Kitteridge,Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the rules, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These rules, which come into force on 1 January 2011, amend the District Courts Rules 2009 in the light of the Limitation Act 2010. Rule 1.16.3 (which relates to calculating periods of time fixed by the rules or by a judgment, order, or direction or by a document in a proceeding) is amended to replace references to the Limitation Act 1950 with references to the Limitation Act 2010. Form 9 of Schedule 1 (which is the form for a plaintiff's or other party's reply to a defendant's response to a plaintiff's claim) is amended so that it recognises clearly that the effect of a limitation defence is to bar by statute not a plaintiff's claim, but relief in respect of one.